Useless Conversation

[Surlyboi]

Lack of a better place to put this, was linked to it on the bookfaces.

Why humans scare the shit out of the Federation and pretty much everyone else in Star Trek.

http://m.imgur.com/gallery/wpZ4w

[Merusk]

I'm proud to have started that FB chain. I'm still laughing.

[Paelos]

Humans in StarFleet are basically just rednecks with better toys.

[IainC]

Tax office sent me a postcard today. To my home. Telling me that they don't have my address on file.

That's not as Kafka-esque as it sounds at first.  Post offices - especially in rural areas - are crazy good at teasing out how to get mail to the right person.  Over the years we have gotten mail with address oddities ranging from transposed digits all the way up to "The new lady doctor in town" written on the outside of an envelope (with appropriate postage!)

Unless the postcard had your address printed on it by the tax office.  Then it's just retarded.

I live in the second biggest city in Slovakia (which isn't saying a lot but it's not exactly rural nowhere either). I'm pretty sure the postal service has no idea who I am and the postcard had my full address printed on the back including the postcode.

[Sky]

I know many of the various mail carriers and package deliverers around here. Pretty nice because they can work with my schedule if I have to sign for something. UPS guy will deliver to me at work (even if it's addressed to my house) because he stops here every day.

Re: Star Trek. Definitely would support a new move with Doc Brown as head of engineering.

Maybe Scotty was the 'Great Scott' he always referred to...

[Signe]

The way you move around, Iain, all you are to the post office and other government entities is "last known address". 

[Sky]

Compton. Iain Compton.

[WayAbvPar]

Hope all our Seattle/Vancouver/Portland folks have battened down the hatches. That storm looks very nasty.

It was grossly overblown, so to speak. My wife took Friday off, so we went down to the waterfront for some fish and chips and a walk on the beach in the wind (supposed to be the smaller of the 2 storms). We drove down around the corner to where the wind was blowing directly into the shore and had a lot of fun dodging (and not dodging) the big spray. I even ended up on the front page of the paper Friday night/Saturday morning-

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/weather/one-two-punch-storm-hammers-western-washington-friday-more-to-come-saturday/

That is me in the background getting splashed   

[Hawkbit]

Where did you get fish and chips from? That sounds good tonight.

[Chimpy]

I just am happy that the storm went through and dumped quite a bit of snow on my two January ski destinations.

While I am sure some will melt off, the snow starting early is a good thing.

Now I need Utah to start getting dumped on since I go there in December!

[apocrypha]

So, what, you guys call them chips when they're with fish but otherwise chips are crisps?

[Hawkbit]

Our appropriation is not based on logic.

[apocrypha]

Not judging, just trying to learn the ways. 

[Merusk]

Some places serve actual potato chips/ crisps in place of Fries. Because it's cheaper, or they're easily confused, I suppose.

Much like the rules of the language itself, you just learn the situational application/ pronunciation and go with it. A garden will produce produce. Read about if your suit suits you when you read.

[Bunk]

Sitting in a loaner cube in Scottsdale AZ right now. Must say this city is much more pleasant at 92 degrees. (Compared to the 113 last time I was here)

[WayAbvPar]

Where did you get fish and chips from? That sounds good tonight.

Sorry, just saw this. We went here- http://www.alkispud.com/

They are my fav fast food style fish and chips in the area by a long shot.

[Sky]

So, what, you guys call them chips when they're with fish but otherwise chips are crisps?

This was a thing when I was a kid:



Saw Louis CK last night, best show of his we've seen in a few years. 3 openers, we were worried but they all killed it. Amazing show.

[01101010]

So, what, you guys call them chips when they're with fish but otherwise chips are crisps?

This was a thing when I was a kid:



Saw Louis CK last night, best show of his we've seen in a few years. 3 openers, we were worried but they all killed it. Amazing show.

Jesus I remember that place in my home town... 

[Teleku]

So, what, you guys call them chips when they're with fish but otherwise chips are crisps?

Specifically, we only call them chips when they are paired with a giant fishstick.   

Yeah, we just take the name as originally spoken for foods and stuff.  Common especially with all the UK pub food ("Bangers and Mash", ect.).

[Hawkbit]

Where did you get fish and chips from? That sounds good tonight.

Sorry, just saw this. We went here- http://www.alkispud.com/

They are my fav fast food style fish and chips in the area by a long shot.

Thanks! Might have to take a trip tonight. I don't get to Alki much because of traffic in that area, but good food might be a reason.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Ugh.  Sudden onset cold sucks. 

But the husband went and got me a hot drink when he ran out to get gas, so that's a plus.  I feel like such a slacker though, "working" from home today.  I could have gone in but fuck it.  I need a mental day of sorts.  Debating on whether I should go in tomorrow or still be "not feeling well" again.

[Rasix]

Since they revoked our regular work at home privileges, any excuse is a good excuse to not go in. I really don't like being in the office when I have a cold. It just seems to make it drag on forever.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Yeah, and I'm not the type to just take random days off (no work = no pay!) but it does feel nice to not make the commute, especially in the morning.

[HaemishM]

If you have a cold, do not go into the office. There's nothing worse than getting sick because some fucker wouldn't take time off and instead chose to come into work and spread their disease.

[Yegolev]

I might come in with a cold just to make a point about the remote policy.  Maybe bring in some of those diapers from Disneyland.

[01101010]

If you have a cold, do not go into the office. There's nothing worse than getting sick because some fucker wouldn't take time off and instead chose to come into work and spread their disease.

I say home for a day or two mainly because I don't want to sit there sniffling and hacking annoying everyone around me. That and I usually have a full day of runny nose that I combat with a netipot so that at work doesn't really jibe. I don't give 2 shits if they get sick.

[apocrypha]

Everywhere I've ever worked it wasn't considered acceptable to take a day off sick with a cold. This includes public sector labs, even the ones where I was growing human cells in culture. I don't know anyone who could get away with being off ill now unless they actually had a leg missing or some kind of surgery planned.

[Selby]

My boss at my last job mandated a "if you're sick, stay away!" policy after we passed the super flu around for 2-3 months at the office and everyone got it multiple times. My current job & boss get concerned and want you to stay away as well, especially since he got pneumonia last year and was out for almost 3 months recovering.

[Khaldun]

I pretty much can't take a day off when it's a teaching day unless I'm close to being hospitalized, especially for 3-hour seminars. Kind of the bad side to being the only person who can do an essential task. Upside is that on other days, I can almost always move work around or work from home.

[Nebu]

I pretty much can't take a day off when it's a teaching day unless I'm close to being hospitalized, especially for 3-hour seminars. Kind of the bad side to being the only person who can do an essential task. Upside is that on other days, I can almost always move work around or work from home.

You just described my life.  Except the work from home part.  If I left my research group unsupervised, someone would lose a limb.

[apocrypha]

You just described my life.  Except the work from home part.  If I left my research group unsupervised, someone would lose a limb.

They'd get a day off for that though, right?

[Merusk]

Half day.  Cauterizing the wound won't take that long and smartphones have robust speech to text features. There's another assistant who'd love the job if that's a problem.

The wonderful world of running absolutely lean.

[Pennilenko]

My boss at my last job mandated a "if you're sick, stay away!" policy after we passed the super flu around for 2-3 months at the office and everyone got it multiple times. My current job & boss get concerned and want you to stay away as well, especially since he got pneumonia last year and was out for almost 3 months recovering.

This mirrors my work as well. I came in coughing today and my boss told me to take my laptop home and get better.

[Nebu]

They'd get a day off for that though, right?

 

I laughed.

[Yegolev]

Everywhere I've ever worked it wasn't considered acceptable to take a day off sick with a cold. This includes public sector labs, even the ones where I was growing human cells in culture. I don't know anyone who could get away with being off ill now unless they actually had a leg missing or some kind of surgery planned.

Did you move to the United States?